For your consideration I offer this stunning pre-war Chronographe Rattrapante Löwenthal, Switzerland, c. 1930.
Manual wind movement, hour, minute, second, 30 min register, telemeter.
Silver dial, blue steel hands, 100% original and unrestored.
Face is unmolested and is beautifully aged.
Blue-steel hands are original as well as the crown and pushers.
20 microns gold plated case.
Gold filled case measures 40 mm in diameter without pushers or crown.
Lug tip to lug tip: 44,5 mm, lugs width: 19,5 mm
Back cover reads METAL PLAQUE OR LAMINE GRANTI 10 ANS 20 MICRONS.
Serial number inside case back is 1011.
Clean movement, serviced and lubricated.
Scratch free acrylic crystal.
Fully functional, overall very good condition normal age related traces of wear.
Comes on a new NATO strap. Telemeter chronograph:
The telemeter chronograph is a feature of a wristwatch, which allows the user to approximately measure the distance to an event that can be both seen and heard (e.g. an artillery explosion or a torpedo strike) using the speed of sound. The user starts the chronograph (stopwatch) at the instant the event is seen, and stops timing at the instant the event is heard. The seconds hand will point to the distance measured on a scale, usually around the edge of the face. The scale can be defined in any unit of distance, but miles or kilometers are most practical and commonplace.
Our watch here measures distances of up to 20 Km.
This watch may well have belonged to a high ranking naval or artillery officer before or during WWII. Double chronograph is a watch that includes two separate stopwatch mechanisms in order to estimate two separate events of different durations.
The double chronograph was previously called Fly-back second. It was invented in the 19th century by Adolphe Nicole. During the 1930s, due to a smaller size the mechanism was able to fit the case of a wristwatch. All in all, a beautifully aged vintage watch in excellent overall condition.
This is super rare and highly collectible watch.
Don’t miss out on this one or you will regret it.
Bid with confidence. Guaranteed genuine and original or I will refund your money.
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100% AUTHENTIC.
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